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To: libstripper

If they do it would be a horrible mistake.


2 posted on 04/28/2024 10:38:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (.Has Nancy Pelosi called for the leader of Hamas to step down yet? If not, why not?)
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To: GOPJ

The decision will not be based on the right to camp, as there is no such right. It will be based on whether being homeless is a status and whether the ordinance forbidding sleeping outdoors in a public space criminalizes that status and is therefore a violation of the 8th amendment forbidding cruel and unusual punishment.

That it is even being considered under that amendment is thanks to the Warren court which gave us a decision referred to as Robinson which decided being a drug addict was a status and unlike the conduct of possessing, using, or dealing drugs could not be regarded as a criminal act. Which meant it was cruel and unusual to treat addiction as a crime. THANKS EARL WARREN! Sarc.


33 posted on 04/28/2024 12:43:45 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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